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Congress Should Support Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing<div class="text blurb">"If not for post-conviction DNA testing, I might still be in prison, or worse, I could have been executed."</div>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8761http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8760
Law Banning Commercial Surrogacy Takes Effect Thursday<div class="text blurb">A new law banning commercial surrogacy takes effect July 30 even as controversy continues to swirl around children born before the law was passed this winter.</div>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8760http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8759
CRISPR/Cas Gene-Editing Technique Holds Great Promise, but Research Moratorium Makes Sense Pending Further Study <div class="text blurb">In the enthusiasm and hype surrounding CRISPR, it is easy to forget that the technology has been in wide use for barely three years and the accompanying risks are not yet known.</div>
Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8759http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8753
Cutting-Edge Technology and Mitochondrial Diseases - Where is the Limit?<div class="text blurb">In their latest study, Shoukrat Mitalipov and collaborators report on two potential 'gene correction' strategies that can help patients with mitochondrial diseases.</div>
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8753http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8754
Sperm Donor Fathers Reveal Struggle of Not Knowing Who Their Kids Are<div class="text blurb">Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8754http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8751
Outsourcing Motherhood: India's Reproductive Dystopia<div class="text blurb">Stories of DNA mismatches, abandoned babies, and unscrupulous practices at IVF clinics suggest that commercial surrogacy in the country is almost in a state of lawlessness.</div>
Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8751http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8749
Putting a Price on a Human Egg <div class="text blurb">A lawsuit claims that price guidelines used by fertility clinics artificially suppress the amount women can get for their eggs.</div>
Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8749http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8755
India<div class="text blurb">IndiaFri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8755http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8752
Scientist Criticizes Media Portrayal of Research<div class="text blurb">A psychology researcher looks at media missteps in reporting work on music and the brain.</div>
Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8752http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8750
Republicans Just Sabotaged a Bill that Would Have Helped Wounded Vets Start Families<div class="text blurb">A recent Congressional bill would have extended coverage for fertility treatments to retired veterans. </div>
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8750http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8748
Drifting Away from Informed Consent in the Era of Personalized Medicine<div class="text blurb">In our excitement about the technological capacity to gather genomic data at an ever-lower cost, we are drifting away from what has long been a basic ethical commitment.</div>
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8748http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8740
The Ethical Sperm Bank: An All-Open Sperm Bank. An Idea Whose Time Has Come<div class="text blurb">These are the only solutions in the absence of government regulation. Perhaps in time and as public pressure mounts, regulation will follow.</div>
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8740http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8739
The House of Hidden Mothers by Meera Syal<div class="text blurb">A new novel explores issues of infertility and surrogacy that affect South Asian and British Asian society today.</div>
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8739http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8738
Your 23andMe DNA Can Be Used In Racist, Discriminatory Ways<div class="text blurb">A programmer came up with an app that can block users from websites based on information drawn from their DNA about "sex, ancestry, disease susceptibility, and arbitrary characteristics."</div>
Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8738http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8736
US Tailored-Medicine Project Aims for Ethnic Balance<div class="text blurb">The $215-million Precision Medicine Initiative is having trouble meeting an imminent deadline, in part because its priorities include filling racial and socio-economic gaps left by other long-term studies.</div>
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0700http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=8736